Quantity starts off within the post-Civil conflict interval and strains the advance of yank theater as much as 1945. It discusses the position of vaudeville, eu affects, the increase of the Little Theater circulate, altering audiences, modernism, the Federal Theater move, significant actors and the increase of the celebrity approach, and the achievements of extraordinary playwrights.

The Cóir Anmann mentions Fáelad’s kin, who are clearly all shape-shifters, which might mean that shape-shifting is hereditary in Old Irish litera23 Sharpe postulates that the signa diabolica could have been wolf-relics (83). 514-517. 25 The other two ‘cleverest reckonings’ are made by Cú Chulainn and Lug. 24 52 ture as well. 26 V: Although the fénnidi and díbergaig are fearless, they are not described as being invulnerable or exceptionally strong. They are not capable of any extraordinary feats.

Liuzza (1988): ‘… the loss of a prefix is as much scribal variation as linguistic development’. 13 In fact, Doane (1998) analyzes the ge-form in 30b as an ‘aural’ ‘unconscious reflex’ which testifies to his assertion that ‘the Exeter scribe was willing to compose by ear as he copied by eye and was capable of freely substituting elements that made as good metrical, rhetorical or semantic sense one way as the other’. 14 Daniel is quoted from Krapp (1964). 10 25 O’Donnell (1996: 416) remarks that ‘the addition or omission of gehas no effect on sense or syntax’.

When I use the term berserkr, which is in keeping with the Old Norse spelling, it will refer to the Old Norse bear-berserkers only. 1. g. Speidel, 2002; Mallory, 1997; Fields, 1991; McCone, 1990, 1987, 1986; Henry, 1982; Farrell, 1982; Puhvel, 1979; Pettitt, 1976; Eliade, 1972; Arent, 1969; Sjoestedt, 1949. 2 The main characteristic of a berserker is his feral battle rage, which is a feature that must be present to identify a character as a berserker. Because of the scarce text material, the rest of the features do not necessarily have to be present for a positive identification as a berserker.